Farsley Celtic Football Club has revealed a £1million plan to redevelop its ground financed by selling land for housing.

The 97-year-old club has submitted plans to Leeds City Council for the new sports facilities at its Throstle Nest ground.

The club has already received support from the Council's leisure services and charitable body Sport England as it bids to take the club to the next level.

If approved, the facilities would be available for use by football clubs and communities in the East Bradford area.

Club chairman, Andy Firbank, said: "In the last 18 months we have been in discussion with Sport England and Leeds Council leisure services to generate a plan for redeveloping the site.

"We are currently applying for planning permission for the development and looking into selling off some of the land we own to finance it.

"We are fast approaching the club's centenary. In order to make it viable that the club can continue for another 100 years we need to look at getting the facilities up to speed."

Under the plans, the club would sell off two of the eight acres of land it owns and redevelop the remaining six.

The club already has a tentative agreement to sell the land to Belway Homes for development into housing.

Plans for the site include new changing blocks and a new clubhouse including function rooms and meeting facilities.

There are also plans for a second pitch that would be available for other clubs to use.

Mr Firbank said: "Our hope is that we would be able to involve clubs from around the area in using the site.

"However it will not just be about football. The meeting and function rooms would be available for to communities from East Bradford and West Leeds on the new site. We want the development to benefit the area and not just the club."

Farsley Celtic, founded in 1908, is currently home to two senior teams and 23 boys and girls teams. The main senior team - managed by former Bradford City defender Lee Sinnott - currently lies third in the Unibond premier division.

Mr Firbank said he hoped to get a decision on the plans from the council's planning department by the end of the month. If approved, work would be due to begin later on this year.